"Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale"—Rudolf Virchow

October 09, 2013

Saudi Arabia: Something to ponder

Thanks to my friend Tim Walker in Helsinki for retweeting the link to the Press Freedom Index 2013, published on the Reporters Without Borders website. It lists Finland as #1 in freedom of the press. Canada comes in at #20, right behind Namibia; the UK is at #29, just ahead of Ghana; the US is at #32, right between Suriname and Lithuania; and Saudi Arabia is at #163, between Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan.

We should probably bear this in mind in assessing both the quality and quantity of Saudi MERS reports.

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Saudi Arabia: Something to ponder

Thanks to my friend Tim Walker in Helsinki for retweeting the link to the Press Freedom Index 2013, published on the Reporters Without Borders website. It lists Finland as #1 in freedom of the press. Canada comes in at #20, right behind Namibia; the UK is at #29, just ahead of Ghana; the US is at #32, right between Suriname and Lithuania; and Saudi Arabia is at #163, between Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan.

We should probably bear this in mind in assessing both the quality and quantity of Saudi MERS reports.